This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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ObHack: Telephone
Article: 7953 of alt.hackers From: jfesler@gigo.com (Jason Fesler) Newsgroups: alt.hackers Subject: ObHack: Telephone Date: 03 Jun 95 00:13:26 Organization: Fidonet: Jason Fesler; jfesler@gigo.com Lines: 30 Approved: Tandy Corp Message-ID: 229_9506030033@gigo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: gigo.com X-FTN-To: seb3@harvey.gte.com Status: RO
seb3@harvey.gte.com wrote in a message to All: sh> All you have to do is go to your neighborhood Radio Shack sh> and ask the manager for a resistor with a negative ohm sh> value. Right by the sign that says "Danger, High Impedence" .. :-) Damn, now I gotta think of an original Obhack: (lame) Someone decided that they were going to fax a proposal over to who we will call "Bob". Unfortunately, they decided my voice line was the number they wanted to deliver it to. After getting their fax machine a few times in a row, I fired up my fax software to find out what the hell was coming in. After reading it, I called and let them know their error (now knowing who they are). Great, problem resolved - for all of 5 minutes. They did it, _again!_. Call Forwarding to the rescue - I forwarded my voice line to theirs. Every time they tried to fax me, they'd have their phone ring, and go to pick it up. After about 1/2 hour, they finally got the idea, and left me alone.. -- | Jason Fesler | Disguised as jfesler or jfroot@infomania.com when working | GIGO support mailing list: listserv@gigo.com, msg body "subscribe gigo" | Remember kids, don't park and drive - accidents make people!
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